Xerox Corp. v. City of Detroit

The consolidated cases herein reach this Court on an appeal by right from a judgment in the circuit court on April 2, 1974. The dispute is over the assessment of taxes on Xerox Corporation’s copying equipment involving six tax years, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1972, and 1973. These actions concern the legality of property taxes on leased equipment which plaintiff paid under protest to the treasurers for defendants for each of the above-mentioned tax years. Defendants’ boards of assessors valued this equipment for assessment purposes on the basis of the listed selling prices for the equipment as…